If you could print from the command line, then you could print to a
file, and take that ps file and convert it to a pdf...gets more
complicated all the time :)
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On 8/28/06, Shawn Badger <
sbadger@cskauto.com> wrote:
> That doesn't look like it will work for me. Based on you suggestion
> about Firefox extensions, causes me to wonder if there is an extension
> for Firefox that will allow you to script it from the command line. I
> know you can specify how big and which page to open to from the command
> line, but it would work for me if I could have it open a page and then
> save the complete page to a directory. Then I could us a different
> unknown app to convert that information to a pdf or something.
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:51 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > Am 28. Aug, 2006 schwätzte alex@crackpot.org so:
> >
> > > Quoting Shawn Badger <sbadger@cskauto.com>:
> > >
> > >> Does anyone know of a CLI app that can capture a web page to a jpg or
> > >> better a pdf? I need to capture a dynamic page on daily basis and e-mail
> > >> the captured image to various people. I have tried using wget, but it
> > >> saves some weird results. I suspect that is because the page I am
> > >> polling is generated with PHP.
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > wget downloads/saves the source text of the page, so if you want a jpg or
> > > pdf, I don't think that will help you.
> > >
> > > This app is web-based, not CLI, but it might be worth looking at :
> > > http://bluga.net/webthumb/index.php
> >
> > Josh is here in town ( one of the people behind AzPHP ), so maybe you can
> > convince him to let you use it on your company's intranet.
> >
> > Also, there are some extensions for Firefox that will run scripts. Maybe
> > you could setup Firefox to pull up the page and save it to PDF. A script
> > run from cron could then poll for new files to mail out.
> >
> > PrefBar is the extension I can think of off the top of my head. Not
> > available from the Firefox website, but still worth looking into.
> >
> > Is there a command line option to Firefox to save a URL to PDF?
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
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